Growing up an Eagle in Kentucky

made me very nostalgic though….i remember my dad took me one day in his car when i was like 9 and i didnt know where we were going and he wouldnt tell me. we ended up at lehigh for eagles training camp. it was awesome …..

Im probably a bit older but when Brian Dawkins left you couldnt talk to me about him for two monthes. Tra Thomas is my second favorite Eagle of my fandom, so that loss was bad too. I was in college when he signed with the Jags and I was in school there but he was benched and treated like shit. I lived most of my life in Miami after moving from NJ when I was five, so I feel ya on that too.

Grew up watching Reggie White, Randall Cunningham, Eric Allen, Seth Joyner the list goes on and on. I’m 29 now so when I started playing pee wee football at age 5 the team I loved to watch was the Eagles. Even though I was from CA.

Through thick and thin I love this team. I want so badly for the Philadelphia Eagles to win a superbowl.

Back in 2008 when I was stationed out in Hawaii I had the honor and privilege of meeting Brian Dawkins. It’s something players like to do when they are out in Hawaii for the pro bowl is to visit military bases. And Brian Dawkins chose to visit our Coast Guard base in Honolulu it was his last pro bowl as an Eagle. The guy was awesome he wanted to know more about what we do and was thanking all of us. Let’s just say I was star struck.

Go Eagles they will always be my team even though it looks like adventually LA will get another team sometime.

Watching him play was always a blast. I live in AZ and a few weeks after we lost the SB in 04 my friend texted me because he knew I was a fan. He said that Mcnabb was at the gym that I go to that was down the street. So I went down there and he was playing basketball with some guys. I was watching for a few minutes and after they finished the game Mcnabb looked at me and said “you got next game?”. I was so speachless I just said nah, but it was one of the coolest things ever.

And then i saw that eagles D agaisnt the falcons in the nfc conference game how dominant they were and the post game speech by dawkins his intensity his anger and strength and thats when i knew id be an eagle for life.

I grew up in NJ so there’s mostly Giants n Jets fans and the Iggles are strongly despised, at least around me they were. I’ll never forget the pain of being robbed of that 2004 ring…never. I felt like we were being cheated in that game and some time later my doubts were cleared, we did get cheated. It hurts to know that we lost that chip and wont have to show for it now but it’s ok for Pats to keep and only penalized with a meager fine. After that everything began falling apart. It hurt me greatest when Hawking Dawkings left. He, in my eyes, was the embodiment of what Philly toughness and grit was all about. I’m not sure there’ll be another Eagle quite like him, and Tra was a close 2nd. Those 2 were pne hell of a duo in the locker room. Wish we can get even half that leadership back. After McNabb left I felt even more lost about this team and felt our team growing much more distant from a title. Vick’s stellar play last year helped revivify some lost hope, and with the new addition of Namdi and Jenkins, along with the return of Babin, it’s getting a bit brighter. I pray that we make the right choices, get the few pieces we need, and just go on a tear, especially defensively akin to 2004, and get that long coveted and deserved chip in 2K13.

Go Iggles! Bleed green all the way.

I was born and grew up in Bucks County, PA and South Jersey until I was 16 when I moved to Lexington, KY. I have been here for 9 years now and still have been a crazy Eagles fan since I was a toddler going to the Vet. Most of my friends down here are Bengals fans too and crazy about UK bball (I also bleed Blue, but for UK since it’s my alma mater). Too bad many of the rednecks down here are Cowboys fans, and I definitely vocalize my displeasure quite often with them after a few glasses of bourbon. Anyways, hope to see you around as it is always awesome to have another Philly fan to scream and yell with!

When your friend said that you throw like McNabb, was it because it was always in the dirt?

I’m an eagles fan partly due to being in South Jersey, and partly due to DMac winning me my first fantasy football championship that year he and Culpepper went off.

I was one year removed from high school, the very same high school Rich Miano graduated (never net him, he’s in a younger generation). I got into the circle of betting, where I finally set my eyes on the NFL. The Philadelphia Eagles caught my eyes, I went to Washington Intermediate, they were also the green and white Eagles. I’m in Hawaii, where there are alot of the common, Raiders, Rams, Dallas and San Francisco fans, what a grilled ka-bob.

On a Sunday get-together, I’m always the lone Eagle watching the others bicker at each other’s throat. And if the Eagles game is on, I get a nudge or a sarcastic oooh, long as it weren’t any one of their teams, that’s when I really paid attention. Got to know the coach at the time, Dick Vermeil, QB Ron Jaworski and RB Wilbert Montgomery. Talk about the days you had to deal with 3 over the air channels and tv console such as Zenith.

I believe with the inception of cable tv and team expansions, we started having MNF and Sunday night games. Welcome to the NFL young and old, the excitement continues into the social network as a fan base productions. I’ve read the many postings, to the most negatives and assurance of positives, that makes up those die-hard loyal Eagles the strength of the organization. And I am that damn proud, to be an Eagle into the 21st century.